Asa White
Asa White was born in Massachusetts about 1770. A county history of 1884, in a sketch of his son Isaac, calls him "a native of Massachusetts" and gives his age at death as eighty-five. Who his parents were is not known.
He came to Dummerston, Vermont, from Wardsboro. On 27 November 1791 Jason Duncan, justice of the peace, married him at Dummerston to Patty How, also of Wardsboro. He lived near the Joseph Temple place and is on a list of the families in the town's fifth school district.
The Dummerston town clerk recorded six of their children: Annice in 1792, Joanna in 1794, Ebenezer in 1796, Asa in 1798, John in 1800 and Isaac in 1802. The 1884 history says there were ten in all. Annice married Justus Scott of Westmoreland, New Hampshire, who kept the ferry on the Connecticut River that was later called Putney lower ferry.
By 1817 the family was in Townshend. Asa sold land there to his son-in-law Asaph Witherell, and Asaph built a house on it in the east part of the town. When Asaph's creditors seized that house in October 1820, the record noted it stood on "land heretofore deeded by Asa White". His sons Asa and Ebenezer went west with Asaph, to Amity in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
His son Isaac learned the jeweller's trade in New Hampshire and settled at Waterford, in Erie County, in 1822. After a year Isaac rode back to Vermont on horseback, six hundred miles, to bring his parents and the rest of the family. They reached Erie County with a team in February 1823.
Asa and his wife spent the last fifteen years of their lives in Isaac's home at Waterford. Isaac was a jeweller and for many years the borough clerk and treasurer. Asa died in September 1855, aged eighty-five. Patty died on 11 April 1857, aged eighty-seven. They are buried under one marble monument in Waterford Community Cemetery East. It also names John and Mary Lenox, the parents of Isaac's wife Rosanna. A small footstone marked "A. W." stands nearby with a metal veteran's star beside it. The star does not say which war.
Children
Joanna White (1794-1875)
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Cite: Heirology, "Asa White (1770-1855)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/asa-white-1770-1855-8b4091.